Divison of Labor (image)

Caption

Above, individual members of a colony of clonal raider ants, Cerapachys biroi, have been tagged for behavioral studies. While some ants form a tight cluster and nurse the ant larvae, others leave the cluster to explore and forage.

Credit

Daniel Kronauer/The Rockefeller University

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